Mop-wringer.



P. SMITH.

.MOP WRINGER.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 3. I916.

Patented Feb. 8, 1916.

l/VI/E/VTOR I 1 {W 5 2 UNIT PHILESTER SMITH, or Roonnsr-sa"; nnwxoax.

MQP-WR-INGER.

Specification of Hietters'iatent.

Patented Feb. 8, 1916.

Application filed January 3, 1916. Serial No. 69,828,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PHILESTER SMITH, of Rochester, in the county of Monroe, State of New York, have invented a new and useful Mop-Wringer, fully set forth in the following specification and shown in the accompanying drawings.

The present invention relates to mop wringers and more particularly to the type employing two rollers connected to a suitable receptacle, an object of the invention being to provide a construction which issimple in operation, inexpensive to manufacture, and will direct the water from the wringer rolls to the receptacle.

To these and other ends, the invention consists in certain parts and combinations of parts all of which will be hereinafter described, the novel features being pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawings: Figure 1 is a vertical section through the mop wringer; and Fig. 2 is a top view of the mop wringer.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, 1 indicates the pail or receptacle which may be of any suitable form but it is preferably rectangular in horizontal section.

1 Mounted to turn at one side of the receptacle is a wringer roller 2, the ends of which are spaced at 3 from the proximate walls of the receptacle and the turning axis of the roller is preferably below the upper edge of the receptacle, the roller being preferably supported by extended pintles 4 turning in the opposite side walls of the receptacle. Also arranged on the receptacle is a bail comprising a handle portion 5 and two side arms 6 which are preferably pivoted at 7 to the opposite side walls of the receptacle to swing on the inside of the receptacle about an axis in a horizontal plane above the axis 4 of the roller 2. These side arms are provided with lateral extensions 8 serving as guards which operate within the receptacle between the pivot 7 and the roller 4, the extreme-ends of the guards working between the ends of the roller 2 and the proximate faces of the receptacle to engage the pintles 4 and limit the swinging of the bail in one direction so that the receptacle may be held by the bail and the bottom at the side adjacent the roller 4 for discharging the contents from they other side of the receptacle without any swinging movement of the bail. These guards 8 may also support a roller 9, the turning axis 10 of which is so located that, when the bail is swung to the position shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1, the roller 9 may also serve as a handle for the receptacle permitting the re- 'ceptacle to be carried about with the roller 9 in the dotted line position ready for the introduction of the mop between the two rollers 2 and 9.

In the use. of the mop wringer, the receptacle 1 contains the usual water and the roller 4 is thrown to the position shown in dotted lines. The pail is carried around by the handle 9 until it is desired to wring the mop when the roller 9 is thrown into cooperation with the roller 2 with the mop between them, the handle 5 being employed for pressing the roller 9 toward the roller 2 as the mop is drawn between the rollers and the roller 5 being situated to one side of the vertical plane of the pivot 7 when the rollers 2 and 9 are in cooperative relation so that downward pressure on the handle portion 5 will be communicated to the roller 9.

From theforegoing, it will be seen that there has been provided a mop wringer in which guards or shields are carried by the bail to bridge the joint between the two rollers and to extend within the side walls of the receptacle between the rollers and the pivot of the bail. The guards act as stops to limit the swinging of the bail in one direction, and they also permit the swinging roller to be so located with reference to the pivot of the bail that said swinging roller may be employed as a handle.

What I claim as my invention .anddesire to secure by LettersPatent is 1. In a mop wringer, a receptacle, a roller atone side of the receptacle, a bail pivoted to said receptacle, a roller arranged on the bail to cooperate with the first named roller and guards on opposite sides of said bail arranged to operate within the receptacle, from the pivot of the bail to the first named roller and to bridge the joint between the two rollers when they are in cooperative relation.

2. Ina mop wringer, a receptacle, a roller mounted at one side of the receptacle, a bail pivoted to said receptacle so that its arms are within the side walls of said receptacle,

and the pivot point is in a slightly higher plane than the axis of turning of the roller, said bail being provided with lateral guard extensions on opposite sides to enter the receptacle between the pivot of the bail and the roller, and a roller carried by said guard extensions to cooperate with the first named roller, the position of the second named roller on the guards being such that, when the bail is thrown to one side, the said roller 10 Will be positioned substantially over the pivot of the bail to be used as a handle.

PHILE STER SMITH.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents.

Washington, D. C. 

